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Palmer would like to hand writ to Newman

Clive Palmer says he would like to personally deliver a writ to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.

The federal MP is suing Mr Newman over "outrageous" claims the mining magnate had tried to buy his state government and he offered inducements to three rebel Northern Territory MPs.

Mr Palmer said he would prefer to hand the writ to the premier in person on Wednesday.

"I'd like to do that but you'd never find him," he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.

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"I don't know if he's in the ladies toilets or where he is.

"Maybe his crown solicitor will accept it."

The federal MP for Fairfax said Mr Newman's comments made at a joint media conference with Prime Minister Tony Abbott were a personal attack, and not a statement on behalf of the Queensland government.

"Why should the ... taxpayers have to pay for his lawyers?," Mr Palmer said.

He maintains that Northern Territory indigenous MPs Alison Anderson, Larisa Lee and Francis Xavier Kurrupuwuy weren't offered inducements to join the Palmer United Party in April.